Placket-fastener.



R. DIGNAN.

PLAGKET FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1913..

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, RUTH DIGNAN, 0F WATERLOO, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO WATERLOO SKIRT & GARMENT COMPANY, 'OF WATE-RLOO, IOWA, A

CORPORATION OF IOWA.

PLACKET-FASTENER.

License, 1

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 111, 192%.

ably and adjustably securing the upper por-;

tion of a placket to the waistband of a skirt, in such a manner as to prevent any noticeable or undue! fullness atthose loc-ations, so that when my device is used on a petticoat or underskirt, the overlying part of the dress will lie smooth and without creasing. This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a representation of an under skirt or petticoat, having my improved placket fastening-means, and as fitted upon the person of the wearer. Fig. 2 is an en larged detail View of the upper rear portion of said underskirt, showing the placket as smoothly secured in place by my improved adjustable fastening-means. Fig. 3 is a similar View to that shown in said Fig. 2, but displaying the upper portion of the placket disengaged from the fasteningmeans on the waistband of the skirt, and as bent over to the rear to display the engaging hooks on the placket. Fig. 4 is a full sized elevation of the fasteningmeans which are secured on the waistband of the skirt, showing also one of the placket hooks secured upon one of the depending crimps of said fastening-means.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

I am well aware that various adjustable fasteningnneans have been devised and used for securing the placket adjustably to the waist-band of an under-skirt or petticoat, but my special object in this application is to show a special form of fasteningmeans for this purpose, which shall be so light, and having so little relief that when the parts no perceptible thickness due to such fastening-means, which ermit the placket to be secured rop on either side of erly while, at the same time, preventing any noticeable fullness at the back of the waistband.

The underskirt or petticoat 1, has the usual placket 2, on whose under-face, near its upper corners are secured the hooks 6. Upon the waist-band of saidskirt, l, I place the placket opening the crlmped rods 3, placed in line with the upper part of the waist-band. Said crimped rods 3 are secured upon said waistband by stitching over the upper crimps a band of material 4 in such a manner as to secure the rods to the waist-band, as indicated in Fig. 4:. These crimped rods are made of a light material, and are preferably wound with fine silk or other thread. Thus secured to the waist-band, the lower loops of said crimped rods project below the lower edges of said bands 4, and furnish an alined plurality of eyes, with any of which, the said hooks 6 are designed to detachably engage, as de sired. Referring to said Fig. 3, ends of tape 5 are shown as connected to the opposite ends of the waist-band, then passed across the placket opening, and secured by a knot. This will hold the waist-band upon the wearer while the placket securing-hooks 6 are being adjusted to engage certain ones of the eyes in the crimped rods 3.

It is obvious that this method of securing the placket is one which is very easy to be manipulated by the wearer, while the crimped rods 3 are so light, flexible, and so small in cross-section, that when placed upon the waist-band, both said rods and the covering bands 4 produce but little added thickness to the waist-band, and do not, therefore, present any visible creases or marks on the garments fitted thereover. Since the hooks 6 depend from the eyes of the crimped rods 3, when once secured therein, there is very little danger of displacementby reason of transverse strain caused by the movements of the body of the wearer. The top of the placket may .thus be fitted. over the placket opening, across the back of the wearer in such a way by means of this device, that the overlying dress will lie perfectly smooth, as is considered desirable in the mode.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. Placket fastening-means, comprising a skirt having a placket and waist-band, de-

the crinips on said crimped rod.

2. Placket fastening-means, comprising a skirt having a placket and waist-band, detachable adjustable securing-means on both the waist-band and on the placket, the securing-means on the waist-band being rods secured along the waistband adjacent to opposite sides of the placket, said rods each having a plurality of crimps, and engagingmeans on each corner portion of the placket adapted to be detachably and adjustably engaged with any of the crimps on said rods.

3. A skirt having a placket and waistband, detachable adjustable securing-means on both the Waist-band and on the placket,

the securing-means on the waist-band being c'rimped rods arranged along the waist-band longitudinally under opposite sides of the placket, engaging-means on opposite sides of the placket adapted to be detachably secured in any of the lower bends of the adjacent rods adj ustably, and astrip of flexible material placed over the upper bends only of the crimps on each of said rods, each strip, its underlying crimped rod and the waist-band being mutually secured together to leave only the lower bends of the crimps in the rods projecting and freefor engagement with said engagingmeans on the placket. a a

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 10th day of July, 1913.

. RUTH DIGNAN.

Witnesses:

G. G. KENN DY, PEARL STANTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

